BBBrrrrrrr...

As you can tell from my post about the girls' dance recital, I enjoy their activities almost as much as they do. However, I also realize how important it is for them to have family time at home...even though it drives me slightly crazy to be at home with nothing going on. So, I told them that they could only do two activities during the school year and this year they picked tumbling and ice skating. Yes, ice skating. Apparently our little trip to the ice rink over Christmas Break had a lasting impression on them (at least it did on Isabel...Ashlen always wants to do whatever her big sister is doing). As much as I will miss the dance recital this year, and as much as I can't stand sitting in the bleachers of a winter-like setting (I HATE winter), I must admit that it is pretty cute to watch them skating! Here they are at their first lesson:
I have to get a video clip of this last one...they learn to skate backwards by pushing off of the wall, then shaking their little tushies. It is pretty much the cutest thing ever! Unfortunately for her dad, Isabel shows great promise in the tush-shaking because her backward skating is really impressive!

It's Finally Out!!!

I am a little late in posting this, but for those of you that have not yet had the pleasure of Isabel's new smile, you will be happy to know that her snaggle tooth is finally out of her mouth. Almost eight months ago, this front tooth started to wiggle. For almost an entire month, it stuck straight out of her head like this:

No, it is not bad lighting or an optical illusion or some nasty photoshop trick. Yes, the tooth is gray. I turned gray about two weeks after it became horizontal. I know. Gross. So, I was very relieved when I realized the girls' annual dentist appointment was coming up. They go to this AWESOME dentist just for kids...so, there were lots of distractions as the dentist finally removed it for us. He was a little surprised at how hard it was to get out of her head...hopefully the rest of them are not stuck as well as this one because I just can't handle another snaggle struggle. Here is her beautiful new smile with the new adult 'chicklet' tooth poking through: